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S.T.A.G.E. on 24 June 2014
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zarx said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:

I understand your point quite clearly. Many games in the past capped out much higher on PC, but guess what I stated that sales are also tugging away at Ubisofts decisions. That and the console makers have been heeding the calls of Ubisoft to increase the power of consoles next gen because they were planning on upping the workload on their primary franchises. They need the consoles sales, but they also need their graphics to not hold PC back as much as consoles last gen did. Even I have to admit last gen consoles held back PC games considerably even though the PC versions were superior in their lead form. Far Cry stood out because it was made for PC regardless. In essence it will be the same in that regard because They will be utilizing the power of the new consoles but still dumbing down the game for the last gen crowd who will make up the bulk of the sales anyway. They want to make the games power accessible to the next gen crowd to sell the power of the next gen consoles because they know those people are more than likely sticking with consoles anyway.


But there PC sales have been going up

and Watch Dogs was only equivelent to PC High rather than ultra on consoles, despite it being a shoddy port in many repects. It makes no sense to not push further in a franchise they know does well on PC that also will come out much later meaning there will be more PC gamers out there with more powerful hardware to take advantage of the higher quality settings when it launches. It seems entirely backwards to gimp Far Cry 4 and not their other releases. And it's also strange because Ubisoft are one of the few major publishers putting out PC exclusives with a new Settlers game just being announced today. As for last gen making up a bulk of the sales I very much doubt that

1 Watch Dogs PS4 2014 Action Ubisoft 0.87 0.70 0.00 0.22 1.79
2 Watch Dogs XOne 2014 Action Ubisoft 0.56 0.25 0.00 0.05 0.85
3 Watch Dogs PS3 2014 Action Ubisoft 0.24 0.27 0.00 0.12 0.62
4 Watch Dogs X360 2014 Action Ubisoft 0.32 0.17 0.00 0.04 0.53

The current consoles will have an even bigger install base by the time Far Cry 4 launches.


Ok Watchdogs development process has nothing to do with Far Cry. Two different games with two different engines that both are lead on two different platforms. Sure, Watchdogs bottlenecked and was dumbed down, but that was because it was being dumbed down to be at least adequately playable for last gen consoles. Far Cry 3 is being made lead on PC (totally different and the opposite of the process with AC and Watchdogs) and its very telling about the different development process with the Cry engine because they managed to access ultra PC settings out of the new consoles. Thats amazing to me. I don't know how it could be seen as an insult. I thought every console multiplat which would lead on PC would be at least high on PC as they said it would be after the PS4 was revealed. This means the consoles which are getting ports of the PC version have more juice in them than we once thought. 

Also, I never doubted that PC sales are rising. I was just speaking primarily about Ubisoft games in general. Is that a Ubisoft list because it has no description of what it pertains to.